M58 Skelmersdale and Up Holland Bypass

Skelmersdale and Up Holland Bypass
Opened
Current route
M58
Start point
4
Glenburn Road
End point
6
Orrell
Original route
A506

This scheme saw the existing A506 Regional Road upgraded to motorway.

Road scheme and chronology data is courtesy SABRE (where much of it was gathered by member Ross Spur), with additional data from the UK Motorway Archive, the Scottish Roads Archive and the Northern Ireland Roads Site.

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The long way round

When a road is closed, why isn't the diversion route just the quickest way past the closure?

Signs and sensibility

The one great attempt to make London’s streets logical - and how one retired chauffeur’s favourite routes changed the way you get around the capital.

A bridge under troubled bridges

A bridge that was ruined by another bridge, and a type of highway planning beyond any of the UK’s worst nightmares.

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